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director, and his colleague, associate director, Sarah Butler, of AA Projects. Ben Widdowson, head of Estates & Facilities at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, will examine the staffing, funding, and management challenges of bringing more EFM services ‘in-house’ following the recent instability of some high-profile outsourced service- providers.
From offsite construction to ‘place-based care’
There will also be two presentations highlighting the benefits of offsite construction, from both a practical engineering and a financial standpoint. Lorraine Whitehead, director of Estates, Facilities, and PFI at University Hospitals of North Midlands, will discuss Portakabin’s provision for the Trust of a fully fitted 64-bed modular building to help it address winter pressures, while Robert Sanderson, deputy director of Capital Projects, Contract and Commercial, at Northumbria Healthcare Facilities Management, James Almond of P+HS Architects, and Geoff Fawkes of the McAvoy Group, will outline the challenges of delivering a new Ambulatory Care facility, within a financial year, at the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington, via the NHS SBS Modular framework.
‘Place-based care’
‘Place-based care’ (covered by Justin Harris, Global Healthcare deputy lead at IBI) is an initiative gathering pace, with a number of GPs’ surgeries joining a network to serve a wider geographical area, informed by research on its healthcare needs. This theme will be followed through in a subsequent presentation on the creation of an index for healthcare planning, to ensure cities are ready for future healthcare requirements, by Dr Gerard Briscoe, a design researcher at WSP. Coupled with planning healthcare infrastructure for tomorrow’s climate, the emphasis is on planning for healthcare provision beyond the next decade. The complexities of translating changing healthcare requirements into the reconfiguration of existing provision sites will be unpicked via a Day Two case study on the reconfiguration of sites within the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. Presenting on this will be Debra Green, the Trust’s Programme director, Reconfiguration, and its director of Reconfiguration, Nicky Topham. Procurement standards will also be discussed, together with the CQC inspection ‘toolkit’ – ‘how to prepare, what will be inspected, legal
accountability, and the consequences of non-compliance’.
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Speakers within a first day IHEEM Diversity and Inclusion Working Group session will include Elizabeth Donnelly, Dr Manju Patel, Kim Shelley, and Claire Hennessy.
Engineering and facilities management The Engineering and Facilities Management conference sessions on 8 October will cover topics including ventilation and air quality, cleaning and decontamination, and water hygiene risk assessment. On the second day the stream will ‘dive deeper’ into the technology of energy saving and electrical safety, covering electrical infrastructure design, low energy buildings with renewable energy technology, and energy saving in compressed air systems.
Planning, Design, and Construction The Planning, Design, and Construction stream will begin with a session by ProCure22, followed by a look by Liz O’Sullivan, Arts manager at Essentia, at art’s importance in healthcare, a presentation by Daniel Briones, an environmental psychologist at ARQmedyca, on research into the influence of design on physical/ psychological health, and a focus by Brazilian architect, Fabio Bitencourt, on the impact on patient, staff, and visitor wellbeing of outside spaces within hospital settings. Hospital accessibility for patients with specific mobility issues will be considered, by Steven Mifsud, a director of Direct Access, and a new wayfinding scheme, ‘connecting over 10,000 destinations’, showcased by Ludo Vereecken, head of Project Management at the University Hospital Ghent. A look at mental healthcare, and the design that this
patient group needs in healthcare settings, will include reference to a ‘patient-centred’ hospital design in Finland. Also discussed will be biophilic design and its impact on the mental health and ‘performance’ of building users, and the impact of acoustics and noise in hospital environments. This stream will also feature exemplars of hospital planning, design, and construction.
‘Innovation’ stream
The ‘Innovation’ stream will focus on healthcare of the future, encompassing new technology that ‘enables, enhances, and facilitates’ energy saving, connectivity, clinical excellence, and safety testing’. A session on ‘connected healthcare’ will look at ‘smart hospitals’.
This year’s exhibition
This year’s exhibition, sponsored by Armitage Shanks and Bender, will feature over 250 exhibitors operating across a wide range of areas, including plumbing, training, compliance management, lighting, engineering, water management, infection control, fire, offsite construction, flooring, sanitaryware, security, doors, windows, ventilation, architecture, technology, and construction.
Exhibition theatres
Seven exhibition theatres will give visitors plenty of opportunity to catch up on the latest products, regulations, and best practice. The theatres are: The HVAC & Engineering Theatre – sponsored by SolXEnergy, and focusing on topics including gas safety, infection control, HVAC, waste management, ‘and many more’.
The Infection Control and Water Zone – The Water Management Society will run a programme on water management and infection control, featuring products and services designed to increase water safety and reduce infection risk in hospital environments.
Simon Adamson from South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (left), and James Chadwick from University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, will discuss ‘Engineers of the Future’.
The Design and Construction Zone – Focusing entirely on design and construction within healthcare, this ‘zone’ will feature the latest project case studies, findings from post- occupancy evaluation, and sharing of best practice in exemplar design and construction.
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